Old & New Names of Different Countries ! |
OLD NAMES & NEW NAMES OF DIFFERENT COUNTRIES OLD NAMES = NEW NAMES- Bathurst = BANJUL
- Peeking = BEIJING
- British Honduras = BELIZE
- Dahomey = BENIN
- Bechuanaland = BOTSWANA
- Upper Volta = BURKINA FASO
- Kampuchea;Khmer = CAMBODIA
- Madras = CHENNAI
- Zaire = CONGO
- French Somaliland = DJIBOUTI
- Abyssinia = ETHIOPIA
- Gold Coast = GHANA
- British Guiana = GUYANA
- Kecho = HANOI
- Salisbury = HARARE
- Saigon = HO CHI MINH CITY
- Dutch East Indies (Netherlands East Indies) = INDONESIA
- Persia = IRAN
- Mesopotamia = IRAQ
- Constantinople, Byzantium = ISTANBUL
- Batavia = JAKARTA
- Leopoldvilla = KINSHASA
- Calcutta = KOLKATA
- Lanxang = LAOS
- Basutoland = LESOTHO
- Nyasaland = MALAWI
- Santa Isable = MALABO
- Bombay = MUMBAI
- Burma = MYANMAR
- South West Africa = NAMIBIA
- Pleasant Island = NAURU
- Christiana = OSLO
- Ceylon = SRI LANKA
- Volgograd = STALINGARD
- Leningrad = St.PETERSBURG
- Dutch Guyana = SURINAME
- Formosa = TAIWAN
- Van Diemen's Land = TASMANIA
- Siam = THAILAND
- Togoland = TOGO
- The Ellice Islands = TUVALU
- The New Hebrides = VANUATU
- Rangoon = YANGON
- Northern Rhodesia = ZAMBIA
- Southern Rhodesia = ZIMBABWE
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